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Classic Club Spin #39
Time for another spin with the Classic Club . Here are the simple rules. Publish a post on your blog before Sunday 20th October 2024. Add...
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Oct 16, 20241 min read
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Nonfiction November 2024
Nonfiction November is coming up. One of my favourite challenges. Thank you so much to the hostesses for this year's event. Here are the...
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Oct 4, 20242 min read
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CC Spin #38 - The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Concerning the title (from Wikipedia). " The novel's title comes from a translation of a verse in the Katha Upanishad, paraphrased in the...
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Oct 3, 20243 min read
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September Reading Wrap-up
September is gone and we have been travelling this month, and still are. We did Sardinia with our camper van and am now in Corsica....
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Oct 3, 20245 min read
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The World of Yesterday; Memoirs of a European by Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was an Austrian author, born in Vienna in the then Austrian-Hungarian Empire. In the 1920s and '30s, at the...
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Sep 12, 20244 min read
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Was August's Reading a Hit or Miss? Let's Find Out!
August has come to an end, and as the days grow shorter, it's the perfect time to reflect on the books I read in August. Whether you...
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Sep 2, 20244 min read
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The Sleepwalkers - How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark
Republished from my old website This is a very complex book about finding the cause to the First World War. It is not possible to point...
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Aug 21, 20245 min read
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The Lonely Empress by Joan Haslip
Republished from my old website. The Lonely Empress is a biography about Elizabeth of Austria. Known as Sisi she has mesmerised a whole...
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Aug 21, 20245 min read
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The Habsburgs by Andrew Wheatcroft
I am presently travelling in Austria and, if you are interested, you can read about my trips on The Content Reader newsletter . My next...
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Aug 21, 20245 min read
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Paris in July 2024 - A Wrap-up
Thanks to host Emma @ Word and Peace we had a fabulous Paris in July this year. Unfortunately, for me, I was rather busy during June and...
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Aug 10, 20244 min read
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Paris in July, 2024 - La vie secrète des écrivains by Guillaume Musso
Guillaume Musso is one of my favourite thriller authors from France. Two others I would like to mention are Fred Vargas and Michel Bussi....
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Aug 5, 20243 min read
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July Wrap-up
July has come to an end, without me achieving very much on the reading front. July also saw Paris in July and I had big plans which did...
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Aug 5, 20242 min read
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